There was no movie makeup here.
That photo of a nasty cut on her foot that Paige VanZant posted last month on social media was legitimate, she told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. And she needed seven stitches for it.
“That was totally real, super painful,” VanZant said.
VanZant said she found it amusing about all the speculation when she posted it. Some fans said it looked like a shark bite, others thought she got stabbed, she said. But in reality, it was just a weird training injury.